L isa Hickman shares her experiences of supporting relief staff in Nepal after April's earthquake
As the global HR coordinator at Age International, a charity that supports older people living in developing countries...

We have to accept and plan for our ageing workforce, writes Chris Ball
Productivity is the puzzle on everyone’s lips at the moment. But few people are talking about the role of older workers in solving this critical...

Willem Scheepers says that today's prototype tech will be tomorrow's strategic HR tools
For a long time HR has held key responsibility for recruitment, training, and pay and reward among other people management...

Duncan Brown explains the issue is more complex than the positive rhetoric suggests Opinion on how to tackle Britain’s gender pay gap is divided, especially when it comes to public reporting. “We will make every...

Cultural attitudes in the workplace need to change before we see any real progress on equal pay, argues Professor Caroline Gatrell
It has been decades since laws were brought in to ensure equality of pay between women...

Jan Hills turns to science-based strategies to retain that post-break glow
With summer here, at last, my mind turns to holidays. But with time off comes that dreadful first day back at work where the emails have piled...

Susanne Jacobs argues that the concept is bad for business
I listened to a talk last week about social hierarchies and it reminded me of something a friend told me recently. He was delivering a session to senior executives...

Working in the UK isn’t so bad, says Grace Lewis, so why are we so disengaged?
It was the moment of the conference that I normally dread: audience participation. But when a room full of delegates at the Economist...